Enables learners to develop their social, emotional and academic potential by reducing or removing barriers to communication. Developed 3 booklets that schools and settings can use to develop visual support systems, staff communication and classroom environment

Award-winning EGAR Educational Games And Resources are dedicated to developing communication skills, the art of conversation and an appreciation of the value of talking in dealing with life’s challenges and making healthy informed choices. The psychology based Let's Get Talking Choice Discussion card sets provide a structure for intervention and prevention work, covering Health, Crime Prevention, Personal Development, Citizenship and the Environment.

Listen To Us is a practical resource for people providing training support or professional development in speech, language and communication needs (SLCN), mainly reflecting specific language impairments (SLI). It includes a DVD of carefully chosen clips showing children and young people with speech, language and communication needs and also includes a supporting booklet, offering some questions for reflection on top of the DVD.

It’s designed to be led interactively by professionals with strong expertise in the area, such as speech and language therapists, specialist and advisory teachers. Listen To Us aims to complement and support existing training and professional development activities by: providing opportunities for viewers to start thinking about and discussing SLCN; helping to develop the skills of the viewers in observing and reflecting on SLCN and also helping viewers understand SLCN more effectively and how this may apply to their work.

Teachers, teaching assistants, SENCOs, initial teacher trainees & speech and language therapy students can then use Listen To Us with a range of other practitioners who want to improve their knowledge of SLCN.
The DVD would support people as part of their initial training or as part of their continuing professional development.

This brightly coloured poster provides ten top tips for practitioners and parents to support children's speech, language and communication in the early years.
Top Tips include:
- Use a full range of expression
- Be careful with questions
- Give the child time to respond
Size: approximately 36cm x 36cm.

This poster contains information about children's speech and language development up to five years old. It covers the areas of:
- Listening and attention
- Understanding
- Speech sounds and talk
- Social skills
Size: approx 54cm x 60cm
You can order this poster as a single copy, or in packs of 25 or 100 below.

This A3 poster is folded into a leaflet format and can be placed in a dispenser or featured on the wall.
Designed for reading material in health centre waiting rooms, this colourful leaflet is informative and clearly maps out children’s communication development from birth to five years of age. It is aimed at parents and particularly suitable for display in a GP surgery and/or children’s centre.
At each year, three characteristics of developing communication are listed highlighting how to follow the progress of children’s speech, language and communication development.
Top tips and signposting are listed if parents are worried about their child’s development.

Developed in an easy-to-use format, this checklist contains key information about speech, language and communication development from birth to five years. It can be used when faced with concerned parents, or to cross-reference questions raised during appointments. The A5, durable finish means that this crib sheet can easily be tucked in a diary or taped to the desk for easy access.
Information is also given on what to do if there are concerns about a child’s speech, language and communication development.
You can order the GP Checklist as a single copy, or in packs of 25 or 100 below.

Ready Steady Talk! is an activity book of great games to help children get ready for pre-school and beyond.

Are you and your child ready for pre-school?

Going to and moving through pre-school are big steps for any child, and you play a vital role in helping your child to develop the speech and language skills they need. Ready Steady Talk! is a fun-filled activity pack developed by I CAN’s speech and language specialists and comes highly recommended by early years professionals.

The games and activities in Ready Steady Talk! help your child by developing five core skills:

Paying attention and listening

Understanding what is said

Learning new words

Making longer sentences

Talking socially

The book includes eight pages of invaluable information for parents and carers. Ready Steady Talk is sponsored by Openreach. Take a look at the Corgi Openreach Van here -https://shop.ican.org.uk/corgivan

Harry invites readers to learn about what it is like to stammer from his perspective and how it affects his daily life and makes him feel. He talks about techniques that can help reduce stammering and describes how friends, family and others can help him to feel at ease and reduce his stammer further.

This illustrated book is full of useful information and will be an ideal introduction for young people, aged 7 upwards, as well as parents, friends, teachers and speech therapists working with children who stammer. It is also an excellent starting point for group discussions at home or school.

Hannah invites readers to learn about selective mutism from her perspective, helping them to understand what it is, what it feels like to have SM, and how they can help.

This illustrated book is packed with accessible information and will be an ideal introduction to selective mutism. It shows family, friends and teachers how they can support a child with the condition and is also a good place to start when encouraging children with SM to talk about how it affects them.

Ben invites readers to learn about ADHD from his perspective. He helps children understand what it means to have ADHD and describes what it is and how it feels. Ben explains how he was diagnosed and what he has learnt about ways to relieve his ADHD symptoms, and how friends and adults can help at home and school.

This illustrated book is full of useful information and will be an ideal introduction for young people, aged 7 upwards, as well as parents, friends, teachers and professionals working with children with ADHD. It is also an excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) often struggle with basic conventions of conversation, such as greetings, goodbyes and adherence to a shared interest. The Conversation Train is a colourful picture book full of photographs of trains with engaging photocopiable fill-in-the-blank worksheets and colouring pages to help promote conversation.

Adam invites young readers to learn about AS from his perspective. He helps children understand the difficulties faced by a child with AS - he tells them what AS is, what it feels like to have AS and how they can help children with AS by understanding their differences and appreciating their many talents.

This illustrated book is ideally suited for boys and girls between 7 and 15 years old and also serves as an excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.

We know some children can have speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) that can impact on their ability to listen, understand and express themselves. However, it's not always easy to judge how well a child is progressing with these skills; children may have good skills in one area whilst struggling in others.

The Progression Tools aim to support teaching staff to identify children who may be struggling to develop their speech, language and communication skills. They can also be used to track progression of these skills over time or following interventions.
The Tools are based on theoretical information on typical language development and also the Universally Speaking booklets. They aim to provide a relatively quick way of determining where children are against where they should be for their age and provide more information about how these vital skills are progressing.

The Tools are not a diagnostic tool and do not in any way replace the detailed speech, language and communication assessment by a speech and language therapist that some children will need. However, they will give you information to help decide whether children would benefit from a targeted intervention or whether they need specialist assessment and support.

This tool was developed as part of the Better Communication Research Programme (BCRP) in 2012. The BCRP was a 3 year research programme that was part of the Government's response to the 2008 Bercow Review of provision of services for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN).
The Communication Trust are supporting the BCRP to share their findings.

Communicating Phonics is a guide to support teachers delivering and interpreting the phonics screening check to children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). The guide will help teachers to deliver the check this June, but also has lots of useful tips and advice to support the overall literacy development of children with SLCN.

We have developed a booklet for people who are training to become teachers to give advice and guidance on children's communication skills. Let's Talk About It includes information on:
• The importance of communication
• The impact that speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) can have for children and young people on learning and attainment, and on social, emotional development and behaviour
• How teachers can better identify children with SLCN and through making communication a priority, work more affectively with all children in their classroom
• Signposts trainees to a range of further information sources

Don't Get Me Wrong looks at speech, language and communication needs in children and young people. It is full of useful information and advice which you can use in your setting. It is ideal for SENCOs and teaching assistants.

Universally Speaking is a series of booklets for anyone who works with children and young people. The booklets show where children should be with their communication skills at any given age.
You can use the booklets to find out whether the children you work with are on the right track, what helps them learn to talk and listen and what to do if you have concerns about any of their communication abilities.

The Speech, Language and Communication Framework (SLCF) sets out the skills and knowledge needed by practitioners to support the speech, language and communication development of all children. This includes those people who work with children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN).
The SLCF is available as an online self assessment tool, which you can log in and work through at your own pace.

This booklet provides information about children and young people who use a variety of different ways to communicate, how you can help support them and where to go for further information.
You should read this booklet if you live or work with children and young people whose speech is difficult to understand or who have no speech.
The booklet was developed with Communication Matters, 1Voice, ACE Centre, ACE Centre North, The Makaton Charity, Signalong and Scope.

It isn't easy to see and recognise what happens beneath the surface of children's communication. Being able to listen, pay attention, play and understand are the fundamental building blocks of communication.
Adults play a crucial role in supporting these skills. If a child can't listen and understand, they'll struggle to talk.
We've developed resources to encourage listening, understanding, interaction and play. For pre-school children, Listen Up 0-5, includes a card game with fun activities and advice on how parents and early year's workers can use the resource.

This poster is an easy reference for teachers to understand children's speech and language development from 4-11 years and supports them in identifying children who may have speech, language and communication needs.